Guild Wars 2

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I get that you aren’t asking for new items to be designed. And I get that you aren’t asking that they be entirely free of effort or materials. But it’s still a substantial increase in the benefits of the HoM and it’s so close to asking for new items, that it is hard to explain how it is different.

ANet stated long ago that after HoM/30, you wouldn’t get tangible items, only titles. Isn’t it being unfair to those that never played GW1 (for whatever reason)? Isn’t unfair to those who only went to HoM/30 because there weren’t any announced tangible bonuses?

I don’t see any reason why ANet should spend money (in the form of developer time) to provide us with added HoM benefits that will never be equally accessible to people who start playing GW2 today.

What you’re saying is very subjective and most of the new players will agree with you. You believe that it’s unfair for Anet to spend their time on content for the GW1 players rather than using that time to add things that benefit the new players as well as the old ones, and don’t get me wrong, I fully agree with you. But the GW1 servers are still running, and Anet still has a full team working on GW1.

I’m not telling Anet how to use their resources, but there are many people that feel the same way I do about the HoM, so many people say that we already have more than enough items there and that we shouldn’t ask for more.
The whole point of that system was to have items from GW1 brought to GW2 as a reward for the players achievements, so why not add more of those to the game? Just bring me gear from GW1 just like every other piece in the HoM, that way there’s a reason why only people from GW1 have access to the items.

I think that this is a great idea, but it’s for Anet to decide if they want to give their time to this. And the new players shouldn’t disagree with this idea just because they have nothing to gain from it, they should think about how it would be when they get access to similar rewards in the future.

I understand what you guys are saying, and I agree with you on most of the things you said.
Yes we got alot of nice things, and yes I understand how new players might see that this is enough and that there shouldn’t be any more items added.

But that’s my point, I’m not asking for new items to be added, I’m asking that for those who really put alot of time into GW1 (getting 30 points in HoM is easy, I’m talking about 30+) would like to see more than just titles, and I’m not asking Anet to just throw in some new set of gear. All I’m saying is that just as every other weapons that you get through the Mystic Forge, the ones that cost alot of time and gold to make, to have the option to get a few items that require HoM stuff to get.

They gave us the Fiery Dragon Sword for free, and made the Icy Dragon Sword cost about 100g to get (it’s called Jormag’s Breath in GW2). I’m just asking for a few combinations on the Mystic Forge that require mats from the HoM for more high-end and harder to get rewards.

Hi!

So I was running around Lions Arch with my dual wield Fiery Dragon Sword and Jormag’s Breath, and thought how EPIC it would be if there was a way for me to combine them into an awesome frostfire greatsword of some sort, and then I started thinking about how much the HoM gear could be used for unique upgrades. These could be with simple item combinations or a very complex and expensive such as using the Gift items and alot of ectos to make.

I believe that the HoM rewards are really nice, and I really loved that and it made me look forward to it. But after a time it became a little too familiar and I felt like trying new things and using new weapon/armor skins, but I also feel like it’s a waste to have so many cool stuff available for me through the HoM system and yet not use them because I’ve been seeing them for pretty much all of my leveling period.

If there was a way to upgrade gear from the HoM by combining it with other GW2 gear to make some very unique stuff, maybe some more GW1 armor sets, or maybe even some new sets! Things that people thought would really be nice in GW1 like what happened with the Fellblade, making it a Greatswords was a very nice move!

I would love to see such a thing implemented to the game, it would make the loyal GW1 players feel alot more rewarded. I know I would.